Growth and transformation of the fishing spanish sector in the postwar: State, company and naval construction

Abstract

After the Spanish Civil war the fishing Spanish sector lived an epoch of great expansion, so much geographical as in volume of assets, accompanied of an important process of technical change. To explain this expansion and gradual modernization of the fleet there must be contemplated not only factors of economic and technical type, but also those of institutional character. If from an economic perspective the changes came stimulated by the search of increases of the production and from the technology for the appearance and adoption of new technologies that were involving increases in the productivity, from the institutional area the above mentioned changes were facilitated across the mobilization of financial resources it was doing the naval construction. It is for it that the aim of this work is of analyzing the above mentioned process of expansion and change from a triple perspective: that of the businessman, that of the sector offers and the institutional one.